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Regional Wall of Fame - Writers Voting Numbers

The polls will close on Writers by the end of February. The numbers to phone are:

Historical
Vote for Arnold Bennett (Staffordshire) - 09011962040
Vote for George Eliot (Warwickshire) - 09011962041
Vote for A. E. Housman (Shropshire) - 09011962042
Vote for William Langland (Shropshire) - 09011962043
Vote for Philip Larkin (West Midlands/Shropshire) - 09011962044
Vote for Wilfred Owen (Shropshire) - 09011962045
Vote for Sir Philip Sidney (Shropshire) - 09011962046
Vote for J.R.R Tolkien (Birmingham) - 09011962047
Vote for Izaak Walton (Staffordshire) – 09011962048
Vote for William Shakespeare (Warwickshire) – 09011962049

Contemporary
Vote for Jonathan Coe (Birmingham) - 09011962050
Vote for Jim Crace (Birmingham) - 09011962051
Vote for Judith Cutler (Dudley, West Midlands) - 09011962052
Vote for Roshan Doug (Birmingham) - 09011962053
Vote for David Edgar (Birmingham) - 09011962054
Vote for David Lodge (Birmingham) - 09011962055
Vote for Meera Syal (Staffordshire) - 09011962056
Vote for Benjamin Zephaniah (Birmingham) - 09011962057

Calls cost 10p. 7p goes to telecommunications companies, 3p goes towards funding the wall of fame.

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